SOLUTION: tom is 5 more than twice alex's age. How old is he?

Question 16503: tom is 5 more than twice alex's age. How old is he?
Found 2 solutions by elizabeth2005, Katiebug24:
Answer by elizabeth2005(20) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
okay you wouldn't know the exact age of tom because you dont know how old Alex is so the only thing that i can tell you is this is how you would write the problem out..

Answer by Katiebug24(19) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The answer could be ANYTHING as we don't know how old either of them are. However, the expression that can be used to find it is:
5(2x)=Tom's Age
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